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P. HENKEL. COMBINED BOTTLE REOEPTAGLE AND STOPPER.

Patented. Apr. 29, 1890,.

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ceptacle until the contents of the bottles are 'nois', have invented certain new and useful position for'present and frequent use.

'vetition to practice presents a case adapted UNITED. STATES PATENT OFrIcE.

FREDERICK'HENKEZ, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR oFonE-HAtF T0; w LLmiuA. HAUSBURG, on SAME PLACE.

COMBINED BOTTLE RECEPT'ACLE Ann STOPPER.

srncmrcn'rron forming part of Letters Patent mfecee'n, umaa rn 29,1890.

I Application filed November 25,1889.

To alt whom it may concern:

lie t known that I, FREDERICK HENKEL, a cit zen of the United States, residing at Chicago, 1n the county of Cook and State of Illi- Improvements in a Combined Bottle Receptacle and Stopper for Bottles Placed Therein, of wh ch the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to receptacles or cases adapted to have placed therein bottles wholly or part ally filled with liquids.

The invention is capable of embodimentin a form of construction particularly adapted for the transportation of the bottles and contents thereof placed in the receptacle or case, and is equally well adapted to and capable of construction in aform of receptacle designed to have'placed 4 therein bottles required for present and frequent use.

The purpose of my invention is to obtain a combined bottle receptacle and stopper, the receptacle or case having attached thereto and constructed therein or as a part thereof a stopper adapted to properly cork the bottle, which, in the construction of the receptacle or case, it is designed and intended to have placed therein.

In the constructions herein described, and llustrated in the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, the first-described construction is, in my conception, the most available manner of reducing the invention to practice where a receptacle or case is desired adapted to form both a receptacle for holding the bottles properly corked and a case in which the bottles and contents may be shipped by rail or conveyance, and the second-described construction is a form of the device well adapted for a retaining-receptacle for holding the bottles and contents properly corked and in a desirable Where the construction reducing my infor a receptacle and shipping-case, it is designed-to have the bottles retained in the rercquircd for consumption or use, and Where the contents of the bottles consist of mineral water, pop or. small beer, lager-beer,'and other light articles, the receptacles or case Serial No; 331,624. (Ho model.)

with the bottle and contents may and should be placed in a propcrly-cooled-room-or chant her or refrigerator and there remain until the contents of the bottles are withdrawn from them.'.

I have illustrated my invention by the drawings, indicating two of the various forms of construction of the device embodying my invention, and in these drawings-- 1 Figure 1 is an elevation of a receptacle or case adapted for a transportation case and receptacle for holding the bottles and contents until such contcnts are required for use. Fig. 2 is a section. on line 2 2' of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a plan view on line 3 3 of Fig. t'of a present-use receptacle, and Fig. 4 is a section of the same on line it of Fig. 3.

Like letters refer tolike parts throughout. the several views.

A comparison of the two forms of construction will show that the form and manner'of embodyin g the i nvention are substantially the same in each but in order to the more readily describe the device 'I will for the present confine my description to the receptacle illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

A is the receptacle or case. a is the 'top thereof, a the bottom, and a the sides or ends of receptacle A.

a, is a circular recess in the bottom a, of

about the diameter of the bottle to be placed with bottles of thetype commonly termed squatty I do not find great benefit can be derived therefrom, as such bottles are held.

with suflicient firmness in the receptacle or case without its useby the downward pressure exerted on the bottle by the stopper forming a part of the receptacle, which stopper is inserted in the neck of the bottle, thereby corking' it, in addition to holding or materially" assisting to hold it in position.

B is a stem, having a button C on the lower endthereof.

' D is a washer on button 0. This washer D has been constructed by inc heretofore from a sheet of elastic rubber cloth or elastic rubber sheets. The stem 13 extends at its upper.

end entirely through base E, through which there-is formed the hole e.

'e' e are two sides of the. holes, which are cut diagonally through the base E,'so as to permit the stern B to be brought forward for convenience in inserting a bottle in place in the receptacle, and at the same. time to prethe upper surface or side ofthe button 0, and

the other end of which abuts against the lower surface'of the top a of thereceptacle A.

The operation of the device is: In placing a bottle in the receptacle the neck; of the bottle vis brought up against the washer D and the bottle is then pressed firmly upward, thereby compressing the spring, which tends to force the stopper downward. Then the spring is suiiieiently'compressed, the lower edge of the bottle is slid in on the bottom a of the receptacle until the bottle is directly under the stopper. The spring, it is evident, will then force'the bottle down against the bottom of the box or receptacle, and the stopper will suitably cork the bottle.

I will now describe the construction illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings. In this form the base ref is supported on the legs ayand the base a is built out of thin material, preferably metal, so that the circular depression a of the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 forms a hole-through the base. A slight shoulder or edge is then put on the bottom of the bottle to be retained in the device, to prevent the bottle from reaching through or falling through the hole.

a is an upright rod or post performing substantially the same functions, so far as this invention is concerned, as the sides a of the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. I thereforeretain the same lettering as is given the sides a in the first described construction. v

E is the base of the stopper, and this base E is secured on upright a at any desired height by set-screw E. base E directly to the upright a the top a of By securing the, r

the construction first described may be and is dispensed with.

-B is the stem of the stopper; 0, a button on the lower end thereof," D, awasher on the button 0, and E the spring forcing the stopper downward into the neck of the bottle X. (Bottle X is indicated by dotted lines.)

The operationof this construction is the same as that of the transportation receptacle or case hereinbefore described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1.. The combination of a receptacle,a' stopper-stem base secured to the receptacle and having a hole therein, the front and rear edges thereof being inclined diagonally to- Ward the frontof the receptacle, a stopperstem passing loosely throughthe hole in such base and movabl'y secured therein, a button secured to the lower end of the stopper-stem and having a washer thereon adapted to close the opening in the neck of a bottle, and a spiral spring interposed between the button and the stopper-stem base and around-the stopper-stein, whereby a bottle placed in the receptacle will be corked and held in place therein by the insertion of the stopper in the neck of such bottle, and while the-bottle is beinginserted in the. receptacle the axis of thestop'per-stem will be coincident with the axis of the bottle, substantially as described;

2. The combination of a receptacle, a stoppcr-stem'base secured to the receptacle, 'a.

hole in such base having the front and rear edges thereof inclined diagonally toward the front of the receptacle, a stopper-stem pass ing loosely through the hole in such base and secured therein by a washer rigidly attached to the upper end of such stopper-stem, a button secured to the lower end of the stopperstem adapted to close the openingin the neck of a bottle, and a spiral spring interposed be tween the button and the stopper-stem base and around the stopper-stem, whereby such button may be drawn forward and. assume a 1 position in the neekof the bottle being inserted in the receptacle, such that the axis of the stopper-stem will be the same as the axis of the bottle being inserted, substantially as described. 7 p FREDERICK HENKEL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. HAUSBURG, CHARLES T.-BROWN. 

